Dockers unloading wine barrels

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Street urchins in Lambeth, London, 19th century

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Kinder Scout

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c1930: a man wrestles his tamed bear. (Photo by Imagno/Getty Images) 

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Hitler meets members of the Reich Labour Service. (Photo by AKG)

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Isambard Kingdom Brunel

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A compilation of compass drawn circles, and variants found in many of the churches

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Bikes on a canal in Amsterdam and the Basilica of Saint Nicholas church in the background. (Photo by maydays via Getty Images)

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My favourite place: Amsterdam, Netherlands

John Julius Norwich pictured at the Oxford Literary Festival in 2014. (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)

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A portrait of Catherine of Siena, who in the 1360s experienced a vision from God during which – according to her biographer, Raymond of Capua – she drank the water from the wound in Christ’s side. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

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Husband and wife Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling (Madame Chiang), pictured at their wedding in 1928. The pair “dominated Chinese politics for two decades [and] were among the most prominent non-westerners on the planet throughout the 1930s and 1940s”, says Rana Mitter. (Photo by Granger Historical Picture Archive/Alamy Stock Photo)

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An engraving from Ulrich Molitor’s ‘On witches and female soothsayers’, depicting witches bringing down the rain. Germany, 15th century. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

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Radio Times cover, 1931. (Photo by Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo)

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Radio nation

Wendy Webster. (Photo by Claire Wood/BBC)

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A crowd gathers to watch the witnesses arrive for the trial of John George Haigh, the 'acid bath murderer', in Lewes, East Sussex, July 1949. (Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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10 facts about crime on the home front in the Second World War

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A woman votes for the first time in 1918 Britain

20th Century

What was the 1918 Representation of the People Act?

Notre Dame and Paris, France

20th Century

The LibraryMy favourite place: Paris, France

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Ancient Egypt

Q&AWhy were cats so important in Ancient Egypt?

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Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin stands beside an American flag, soon after landing on the Moon as part of the Apollo 11 mission. (Photo by NASA/Liaison)

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20th Century

1922 in pictures: nationalists, navies, mountains and modernism

A baby wears pink.

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